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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
prenatal
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
care
▪ In 1998, just 4 percent of pregnant women failed to get prenatal care, an improvement from 6 percent in 1990.
▪ The other is preventive health care for all, including prenatal care.
diagnosis
▪ Accurate dating of pregnancy is important for other reasons, such as prenatal diagnosis and early identification of intrauterine growth retardation.
▪ Coelocentesis: a new technique for early prenatal diagnosis Chorionic villus sampling and amniocentesis have disadvantages.
▪ We included genetic counselling alone, for familial cases when no prenatal diagnosis is available, among primary preventive approaches.
▪ Coelocentesis may be suitable for prenatal diagnosis in the first trimester.
▪ Our findings also point to the increasing importance of fetal ultrasonography in the prenatal diagnosis of fetal trisomy 21.
▪ One of their main findings is the increasing importance of fetal ultrasonography in the prenatal diagnosis of fetal trisomy 21.
▪ They hope to get a diagnostic test and prenatal diagnosis out to people as quickly as possible.
▪ We have demonstrated the feasibility of coelocentesis and its potential for prenatal diagnosis before 10 weeks' gestation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Poor women seldom receive good prenatal care.
▪ Towards the end of a pregnancy, doctors recommend more frequent prenatal check-ups.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Accurate dating of pregnancy is important for other reasons, such as prenatal diagnosis and early identification of intrauterine growth retardation.
▪ Do not suppose that just because you can not reach prenatal engrams in a case that they are not there.
▪ Most ally computations have their genesis in the prenatal area.
▪ The auditor looks back at the prenatal area and finds a whole new series of incidents in view.
▪ The patient continued to repeat and then suddenly sank into a stupor when he reached the prenatal area.
▪ This is compatible with the hypothesis that prenatal nutrition affects subsequent pancreatic function.
▪ We included genetic counselling alone, for familial cases when no prenatal diagnosis is available, among primary preventive approaches.
▪ We report trends in prenatal diagnoses over these years and the indications leading to these diagnoses.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prenatal

Prenatal \Pre*na"tal\, a. Being or happening before birth.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
prenatal

1826, formed in English from pre- + natal.

Wiktionary
prenatal

a. Being or happening before birth.

WordNet
prenatal

adj. occurring or existing before birth; "the prenatal period"; "antenatal care" [syn: antenatal, antepartum] [ant: perinatal, postnatal]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "prenatal".

Well, she was overdue for a prenatal checkup, and by now it should be safe to go to the Feen and get it.

The necessity for such instruction is somewhat indicated, in the effect upon the prenatal state, of such conditions as scrofula or struma, of various forms of tuberculosis and syphilis, of epilepsy, of rheumatism, and of insanity.

As you know, we only allow low-risk patients here and all patients must have regular prenatal care with a doctor.

Urgyen Bhotia said, "I find it fascinating that you would include ethics in your prenatal curriculum.

It is the simple mechanical truth that Mother is a common denominator to all the child's prenatals.

If Barbara would come to her for a prenatal check-up each week from now on, when she was in town, a pony-tail maker would be her reward.

A melange of very specific thoughts on child-rearing, education, prenatal care, preschooling, and the like, her book was an exercise in just the sort of incremental post-health care reform advocacy that the polling had indicated would be most popular.

Prenatal care of mothers and postnatal care of infants were subjects of compelling interest in those days, arriving monthly in the burgeoning women's magazines and annually in the proliferous child-care manuals.

If a patient places himself in autohypnosis and regresses himself in an effort to reach illness or birth or prenatals, the only thing he will get is ill.

Their efforts resulted in two additional stillbirths, followed by two lethal-trait bearers confirmed by prenatal testing.